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favorably reported on by the Senate Dis
trict of Columbia committee on the 14th
THE statement that the Dominion Gov
eminent had decided to revert to the old
system of licensing foreign fishing vessels,
is declared at Ottawa to be utterly with
out foundation.
SENATOR STANFORD has contributed a
check for $1,000 to the Logan fund, and
will probably make an additional contri-
button. .
The Government lost its case against ].
T. Chichester ct al at Little Rock, Ark, in
which the latter were sued for S174,0OO,
money claimed TO be overpaid ON Star
route contracts
THE press of Paris exults over the quar-
rel between Bismarck and the Reichstag.
The Temps protests against the idea of de
fensive preparations being made with a
view to checking aggressive movements
by France.
The total values, of exports of beef
pork and dairy products for the twelve
months ended December 81, 1886, were
$86,04, PSI, against S93, 559516 for the same
time the previous year
THE House committee on invalid pen
sions set Tuesday, the 18th, for the special
consideration of the bills giving pensions
of 5000 per annum to Mrs General
Logan and Mrs. General Blair.
HENRY B. STANTON, the distinguished
journalist and lawyer, husband of Eliza
beth Cady Stanton, died on the 14th, of
pneumonia, at his residence in New York.
He was in his eighty year.
THE most severe snow-storm of the sea-
son prevailed in the province of Ontario
on the 14th. Reports from different local
tiles showed the storm to be general. Rail
way travel was much impeded and some
branch roads were entirely blockaded..
AN explosion of several tons Of powder
took place in one of the mills at Xenia, O.,
on the night of the 14th. The shock was
distinctly felt in Columbus, and it was
supposed to be an earthquake at the time,
The mills are located three miles from the
town
FIRE destroyed the Terre Haute Qnd
distillery on the 18th.
MANY Of the New York factories eX-
pected to suspend operations by reason of
| the coal famine.
! IN fight with train robbers near Pitts
burg, Pa, on the 18th, Fireman Curley was
shot through the thigh and brakeman
was badly beaten.
! HENRY M. STANLEY arrived in Brussels
on the 18th, and had long farewell inter
view with King Leopold, his friend and
patron.
THE President was given a surprise
party on the 18th. A number Of Mis-
sourians, headed by Congressman Clardy,
called on him, paid their respects and took
their leave without so much as limiting
! at a desire for an office for either them,
! selves or friends
A BANQUET was given in Paris on the
evening of the 18th to celebrate the ami
versary of the battle of Yorktown
United States Minister McLane and Gen
eral Boulanger, the French Minister OF
War, were among the guests
THE tiara of the Duchess of Connaught
is reported to have been stolen from hel
I apaFtments>in the Dukes headquarters a
Poonah, India. The bauble is valued a
S4,75O
THE remains of the late Lord iddasleigf
have been removed from London to the
family burial place at Exeter, in Devon
shire.
OSCAR WARTI, the Austrian explorer
long believed dead in the interior o
Africa, is reported to have arrived re
Gently at Zanzibar.
FREDERICK b. STANTON, Of Cheyenne
Wy. T., has been disbarred from practis
ing as an attorney before the Interior De
partment or any Of its bureaus,
THE National convention of brick-layers
at its closing session in Washington, OF
the 18th, elected Alexander Darragh, o
st. Louis, for second term as president
DANIEL Rosso was arrested in Ney
York on the 18th for passing counterfeit
dimes. A quantity of them and the mould
for making them were found in his apart
ments.
FRANCES Fox, a middle-aged woman EN-
ployed as a domestic in the family of Mrs
Metcalf at Middleton, Conn, was foun
dead in the barn near the Metcalf house
on the 18th, with a bullet through he
heart. Mr.. Metcalf is suspected.
THE Colin Campbell divorce case is to b
reopened in February before Lord Chic
Justice Coleridge and Justice Hammer.
hTHE remains of sixteen victims of tn
wreck of the German ship Elizabeth wer
buried in the Seamen's Friend cemeter
at Norfolk, Va, on the 18th.
| " n DOlbhEhIIs prominent Oul
politician, died in Washington on the 15tl
THE jury in the case of Emma Moor,
who shot and killed her husband frol
whom she had been divorced, in self-d
fence at Port Huron, Mich, returned
verdict on the 18th of not guilty after a
hours elaboration.
The Clifford block, three-story bull,
ing in Denver, Col, was burned on tn
18th, entailing loss Of fully 100000; il
] sured.
FIRE at the Rhode Island Electric Ligl
works at Prominence, r. l., on the l5tl
T, did considerable damage to the machiner,
4 The engineer was killed and another ma
was seriously injured
THE small farm house occupied by Mi.
Albertine Hevenir, six miles from Syr
/ cuse, N. Y, was burned on the 18th, an
- Miss Heveuir persisted in the flames.
{ was case of deliberate suicide.
A sNOw-sLIDE in the Marshall Basin
n Colorado, on the 14th, killed two men an
G seriously injured several others, besid,
sweeping away lot of mining building
CONGRESSMAN S. $. Cox is reported veI
r sick. He had hemorrhage on the 10th
e PROF. EDWARD OLNEY, professor
r. mathematics in the University of Mich
5 gan, at Ann Arbor, died on the 10th.